As Secretary Rice warned the Russians that they would suffer isolation and consequences such as expulsion from international organizations, the Secretary displayed an emptiness to the wordsof Support to the Georgian government and the "democracy" it was experiencing in the post-soviet world.

Should a European Security and Defense Policy towards the East of continent engage Russia plus all former Soviet republics, or contain Russia and the other authoritarian regimes within their own post-soviet space?

As the first post-soviet state Kazakhstan will assume the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and try to promote it to its previous rank of a main security organization in Europe.